Hi,
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> And years ago, we used to include COMPINFO in a previous FreeDOS
> distribution, but I don't remember why we stopped including it. If I had to
> guess, probably it was the same question of "usefulness."
I'd have to double
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM Bruce Axtens via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I stumbled over DX-FORTH this morning which purports to be "... a
> Forth language compiler and development system for MS-DOS and CP/M-80
> operating systems. It is intended to be a complete, easy to use,
> programming
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I think there may be a point where if one's going to run DOS on
> a modern machine, it'll have to be through some degree of emulation.
> Whether that be a KVM/QEMU-on-metal approach, or a 64-bit "DOS" which can
>
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:44 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
>
> Hi! I just got reminded that (2017 news)
>
> http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/
>
> VME is broken on AMD Ryzen of that time
Ryzen (Zen 1) was brand new in 2017, redesigned from scratch. I doubt
the
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 5:46 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On 12.11.2023 02:44, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> But I still have not found an elegant solution yet to do a widening
> conversion of an untyped pointer from near to far.
> Should be ra
uot;
* http://cd.textfiles.com/ems/emspro1/ASMUTIL/QMATH0.ZIP
Or how about this (32-bit assembly)?
"Efficient [Unsigned] 64-Bit Integer Arithmetic in 32-Bit Mode (AMD)"
*
http://web.archive.org/web/2020110100*/https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/32math64.txt?attredirects=0
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 4:39 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > Could you please post the exact message you got from the compiler?
>
> For something like this "FarPointer(@Buffer)" I get the following error
> message:
>
> "Error: Illegal type conversion: "Pointer" to
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I want to build the FreeDOS Kernel.
Kernel 2043? Any particular reason to not use the stock build? Did you
modify anything or add any patches? Just curiosity?
> I use Dosbox in Ubuntu Linux and watcom comiler from
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> the tests I did showed that FreePascal is perfectly capable of producing
> reasonably small binaries fitting the small memory model, if you do not
> require the full language feature set (stay away from ObjFpc /
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> has anyone recently played around with the FreePascal 8086 cross
> compiler to generate DOS executables? I try to convert a near pointer to
> a far pointer while working under the small memory model, but that is
> not
Hi,
Gmail caught one with its Spam filter. It doesn't show any prior
emails from this person.
author: th...@yamashita1921.com
subject: Re: [Freedos-user] TASM under an emulator?
link: urdirec.com
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:07 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> ...as did I. Mine
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> > I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
> > T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
> > package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:21 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry, the address was in octal,
>
> with -Ax to have the address in hexa it feels ok to me:
Most people prefer "hexdump" these days:
* https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hexdump.1.html
*
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 5:28 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay. I've been sick recently (possibly Covid)
> plus had other stuff to deal with.
No fun, get well soon.
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Hi,
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just an opinion, but it's bad software design to assume that the presence or
> a peripheral implies
> a certain class of machine. The presence of a CD-ROM should not imply a 386
> or better machine;
> it's
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 10:46 AM Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:24 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> Wikipedia says the 286 "was designed for multi-user systems with
>> multitasking applications". OS/2 1.x t
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> > I believe "task swapping" was one of the main benefits of a 286.
>
> It's not a 286 hardware feature, no.
>
&g
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > FreeDOS should run on 8086, both kernel and shell. If it doesn't,
> > that's a bug or omission.
>
> Are you sure? I thought I was told that the standard
> distribution relied on an 80386.
Jerome's work on the
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 3:24 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > However, most people don't care about standards, and even the ones who
> > do don't really think anything "useful" can be written in them. Which
> > is untrue and a shame.
>
> It is only recently - perhaps only a few
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 8:38 PM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Yes, if you're prepared to add a curses layer, then you can
> support both the standard, plus non-standard things like
> a PC BIOS. But neither fullscreen application that I actually
> used and care about (microemacs
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:19 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> VCPI was a small interface added to things like EMM386 which gave other
> apps access to things they would normally no longer reach after DOS gets
> locked up in a VM86 task by EMM386. While it is nice that it is small,
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:51 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> For me, when I worked with, supplied and supported DOS in the late
> 1980s and early 1990s, the chronology went like this:
>
> [2] DOS 4 came along. It was a memory hog, but it had big-disk support
> (over 32MB) and
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Wasn't a virtual get-together supposed to happen about now? -- Gregory
Maybe Jim is still under the weather?
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Hi,
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 7:08 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"?
>
> https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
>
> HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:46 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea.
>
> We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The
> next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS."
>
> We wanted
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 5:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I released FDISK 1.3.7.
>
> I also pushed HTMLHELP 5.3.6 to the unstable branch at gitlab.
>
> It everything goes well both should be included in the next interim build.
Thank you for your work on these.
Hi,
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 11:04 AM wrote:
> > On May 22, 2023, at 7:03 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:48 PM wrote:
> >>
> >> Let me show you a MEM print out from my Pentium Pro:
> >>
> >> NANSI3,536(3K)
Hi,
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:48 PM wrote:
>
> Let me show you a MEM print out from my Pentium Pro:
>
> NANSI3,536(3K) 0(0K) 3,536(3K)
> SHSURDRV 400(0K) 0(0K)400(0K)
> LBACACHE10,576 (10K) 0(0K)
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 4:54 PM wrote:
>
> In, kernel/pcb.h, I see some notes about “offsets must match the assembly
> process”
> and a couple of different layouts for the offsets. Could this be related to
> the issue I am having?
> I am using NASM 2.16.01 and Watcom 1.9.
Someone reported
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:10 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > I believe this is a Free Pascal issue because the short
> > hello world test works, but if you decide to use any
> > objects, the Video unit is completely missing.
I don't do a lot of graphical programming, so I'm unfamiliar with the
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 11:46 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> and - well I understand that kernel version control is a complete
> mess - but Kernel 0.85a seems a bit unlikely given that
> https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/docs/history.txt refers to
> 0.42.
* https://github.com/FDOS/kernel
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:20 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
> >
> > This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a
> > "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99%
Hi again,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a
> "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99%
> of its resources NOT processing OpCodes and NOT accessing the
> cache (because there isn't one).
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:16 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I am thinking about using FreePascal to write programs for DOS.
>
> Writing an "hello world" program in FreePascal for 32 bit DOS (Go32) is easy,
> because the fpc package can be installed
> with fdimples from the
So you want a TEE utility? Or just to single step through it all (F8)?
Try pressing the Pause key. (Yes, I know that's timing sensitive,
sorry.)
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back.
> If only the boot process
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 5:32 AM wrote:
>
> At present, the FreeDOS installed system and installer boot media load FDAPM
> on many hardware configurations and virtual machines.
>
> As most are aware, there has recently discussed issue that the watcom
> installer was taking an excessively
Hi,
Just for completeness
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:22 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> This is a self-extracting ZIP file. You can try using our
> build of infozip UNZIP to extract it. Maybe the downloaded
> exe uses build settings which are not fast for DOS or which
> expect more than 32 MB RAM.
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:26 AM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:
>
> after several tests I found the reason for this strange behaviour.
> It disappeared when I booted from a virtual diskette without fdconfig /
> fdauto.bat and executed watcom.exe. Same from HD.
> Then I added fdconfig again - it was
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> The computer I'm currently using is a few years old, old enough that I can
> boot DOS on the actual hardware.
> The CPU is an Intel i5-4590 running at 3.30 GHz.
*
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:12 PM Volkert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>>
>> > Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on
>> > GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in
>> > FreeDOS. It takes an hour
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 8:57 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> > The problem is, the CPU's _themselves_ really haven't gotten a whole lot
> > faster than they were in the 386 days.
>
> Drastic oversimplification to the point of not being true,
Hi again,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 12:41 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
> >
> > That model sort of illustrates the concept, though. Both Windows and Linux
> > want to manage the _entire_ machine's
> > resources while th
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 5:59 AM wrote:
>
> > On Mar 6, 2023, at 10:19 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> > I noticed edlin32 2.21 is not working because of missing dos4gw.exe, but
> > perhaps that is already obsoleted by the 2.22 release?
A quick fix is copying
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> That model sort of illustrates the concept, though. Both Windows and Linux
> want to manage the _entire_ machine's
> resources while they are running and one OS must give give up that control to
> let the other OS take over.
> I'm
Hi,
Apologies if this is *slightly* off-topic.
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:01 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Let me just say that the computing world would be a VERY different place than
> it is now if Operating Systems
> (and maybe even BIOS's) were re-entrant. For one thing, MS probably never
>
Hi again,
I was thinking about this old email and thought I should clarify (in a
technical sense).
(comments below)
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:56 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Here's the thing: I've had years of direct experience with Stallman.
>
> He calls DOS a "DOG operating system." The FSF and
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:59 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a precise answer
> to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 (although we had speculations),
> I thought, why not ask ChatGPT (Bing) about that?
>
> I had hoped that
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:07 PM Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> in the last two weeks I ported Free FDISK to Watcom C and started fixing the
> bugs people mentioned
> at the bttr forum and in the issue trackers.
Great news! Thanks a ton for your work on this.
BTW, it seems
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 5:19 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> As an aside, I'm wondering if anybody has a "fool-proof" test for FAT32
> capability in the kernel. In USBDRIVE
> what I currently do is go through all the drive letters and see if any of
> them responds correctly to INT 21.7302h
>
Hi,
I got bored (despite already knowing about this history), so I started
watching Nostalgia Nerd's video on "AARD" (re: Win 3.1 beta atop
DR-DOS) on YouTube.
"Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code | Nostalgia Nerd"
* https://youtu.be/TIfNIWn2Ad4?t=753
(comments further below)
On Wed, Feb 22,
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM wrote:
>
> So….
>
> There is only an old version with sources. Or, a newer version without
> sources.
We only have 1.1 of P5 mirrored (so far).
I've built 1.4 (pcom.exe, pint.exe) locally but haven't run the test
suite yet. (He changed it so my old
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:22 AM wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2023, at 3:19 AM, jer...@shidel.net wrote:
> [..]
> I’ve not looked into P5 Pascal. It would be nice to have a alternative to FPC
> for DOS.
>
>
> I just took a quick look at P5 at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pascalp5/
>
> I did
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 7:39 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the IFS (Installable File System) API is documented
> anywhere?
I have no idea if this link will help you, but I'm mentioning it "just
in case" (because it sounds useful and impressive).
*
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 1:37 PM wrote:
>
> Other possible new packages to consider for inclusion (or at least watch):
>
> 386SWAT - GPLv3, Debugger (may require someone to compile)
> https://github.com/sudleyplace/386SWAT
You mean the old compile isn't sufficient? (IIRC, it was on his
Hi again,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I haven't checked the new sources (IIRC, it was said to be BASIC ...
> PowerBASIC??). Does it also include ACD kit (or whatever third-party
> lib)?
This releas
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:41 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> (just for example, DOS maintains
> only one single date for a file, "Time modified", while on NTFS and
> OS/2, you have additionally, "Time created", "Time access" as well.
Some OSes do update "time created" for FAT. (There was a patch
Hi again,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> I used to use SJGPlay a lot (back in the day). I loved it. But I
> haven't tried again in many years.
>
> > Could anyone with a CD player and a s
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I wanted to start a new thread for this request. Based on the
> discussion from the "FreeDOS package issues" thread, Jerome identified
> that the CDP package didn't include source code. Robert suggested
> SJGPlay as a replacement.
I used
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM Danilo Pecher
wrote:
>
> Quite frankly, I would throw them all on the scrap heap.
I wouldn't quite "throw them away", but for simplicity we really don't
have to include them. I don't use any GUI in DOS (by default).
> As Jim said, none of them has any number
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 4:11 PM wrote:
>
> Due to some changes at the current registrar I use for my SHIDEL.NET domain,
> my email was broken for the last week or so.
>
> If any of you attempted to contact me or if I missed something that required
> my attention, I would not have received
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:58 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> FWIW, the one I use is also called TED and is an old utility from PC
> Magazine. The executable is only about 3 kB
> (way smaller than the EDLIN that comes with MS-DOS) and is a VERY basic text
> editor with a TUI
> (it's not a
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 9:08 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Make sure your compiling to the correct memory model. (I think huge, but
> you’ll need to double check that)
Default is Small, e.g. "-WmSmall". I assume "-WmCompact" would work
better for you?
> You may need to ensure the actual
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 3:40 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 19:29, Robert Riebisch wrote:
>
> > Just to add: Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and Virtual PC 2007) were/are available
> > as a free download from Microsoft, but didn't/doesn't include any DOS
> > version.
>
> That's true.
>
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 2:11 AM Ladislav Lacina wrote:
>
> In the last time I worked a lot with the Freepasval compiler.
> The computer: Pentium 4, SSD PATA disk, 512MB RAM
> The task: Compilation of the full Blocek source ("Build all") - 64603 lines
> of code using FreePascal 3.2.0 (GUI)
>
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 6:14 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I noticed that Jim's TRCH only translates one char at a time,
> do we already have a variant which is as powerful as Linux "TR",
> supporting for example TR 'a-z' 'A-Z' or TR -d '\n' and so on?
DJGPP's TextUtils has TR.EXE (but I'm not
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:27 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> > Although I never truly needed to know what VM
>
> One of the main things that started me down this rabbit trail was the need to
> know which Ethernet card is being virtualized in a particular VM so I can
> load the correct packet
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:07 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> I've been working on some updates to the ISLOADED program I sent to Jim a few
> weeks ago.
> Lately I have been specifically trying to add the detection of different
> Virtual Machines (including VirtualBox)
> to ISLOADED. It turns
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:04 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> > On Oct 2, 2022, at 5:08 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> > [..]
> > btw dowloading 900 MB .zip over a 4MB/s download link is a PITA; this
> > alone should recommend a split.
(Sorry, I'm horrible at trying to calculate such things, but I
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 1:46 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Although there has not been a lot of feed back on what to do with the
> excessively (nearly 1GB) BonusCD in T2210, I think the majority of feedback
> has been in favor of splitting off the development packages from the BonusCD
> on
I stumbled upon a link to another cool e-book about C (using the GNU
Free Documentation License 1.3):
"GNU C Language Intro and Reference Manual"
* https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg5.html
* https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git/tree/
"This manual is
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 1:10 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I said previously:
> > Please do not try to install the previous packages for now.
> >
> > I have created the files in DEVEL\BIN rather than DEVEL\DJGPP\BIN, etc.
> >
> > Will fix the packages now.
>
> I think it
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:52 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> At first I did:
> fdnpkg install djgpp_gc
> and then tried: gcc , in some directory... was not working
>
> I then "cd c:\devel\djgpp\bin"
> I then "gcc", but then I got a segmentation fault.
>
> I think that after
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:27 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Following the modification of my idea proposed by Tom: run edit32 on 386+
> else run edit... BTW thanks Tom!
I believe CC386 had a 386+ text editor also using D-Flat.
> I have been looking a bit for a simple
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> > But IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device driver
>> was to check via an INT 2Fh (multiplexer) call (don't recall the exact call
>> value
> > (AX/AH)).
>
> That
es/devel/modula2/m2c/
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/DJGPP203.7Z?attredirects=0
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/compilers (sources to GCC et al.)
Sorry if the binary .ZIP (m2c.zip) doesn't have proper documentation
(check the source archive, it has the man pages and examples).
The
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 4:53 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> PS: Regarding Jim's search and replace suggestion, I like
> to add the twist to use "touch" to "copy" the timestamp to
> a /tmp/tstamp file, then use sed -i for in-place-edits and
> then copy back the change time from the temp tstamp file.
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 1:39 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
>
> Since the docs say everything after the REM is ignored,
> I feel that the behavior is not consistent with the stated
> behavior. So, it is a bug in either the handling of the pipe
> in a REM statement. Or, it is a bug in the
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:29 AM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Ercan sent this announcement and question to me, and I wanted to share
> it with the freedos-devel list:
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Ercan Ersoy
> Subject: FDTUI and Minibox
>
> I hve read documnetation on CWSDPMI
Hi, sorry for late reply,
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Smaller C is a simple and small single-pass C compiler, currently
> supporting most of the C language common between C89/ANSI C and C99
> (minus some C89 and plus some C99 features). Currently it generates
> 16-bit and
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 4:55 PM Volkert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> A few months ago, John W. Ratcliff released the sources of most of the DIGPAK
> DOS sound drivers on GitHub.
> He wrote those drivers in the '90s and used to license them commercially
> under the name The Audio Solution.
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > On 9/19/2021 1:17 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote:
> > > On the chat today, desmet-c (that seems to be some kind of fork to
> > > https://github.com/IanHarvey/pcc [A small C compiler]).
That's not DeSmet C. That's something
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:43 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I notice that FreeCOM 0.84pre2 hangs after beeping, probably
> because it uses some method for timing the beep which fails
> on certain hardware. Could somebody tell me whether newer
> FreeCOM versions fix this by using a foolproof timer,
the second list a kind of index with rejected packages for
> Freedos?
First of all, I'm far from an expert in these languages, but I did
fiddle quite a bit (for such a simple project as a Befunge-93
interpreter) with various Pascal(s), Modula-2, and Oberon(s).
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxu
Hi again,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 7:45 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 4:11 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, after having a problem with IA-16 gcc (which seems to requires DJGPP
> > gcc installed and working), I have search f
Hi again,
Just FYI, if anyone cares, just to be more informed about such things
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:54 PM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:31 AM Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > Regina was (IIRC) compiled with Watt-32 due to external stack queue or
> > wha
Hi again,
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:31 AM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> Regina was (IIRC) compiled with Watt-32 due to external stack queue or
> whatever (rxqueue). You can almost certainly rebuild without it (I've
> done it)
>
> > > Regina at least has some justification. Some
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 10:40 AM Mark Olesen wrote:
>
> DOS Chromebook? I do not believe FreeDOS could compete with the latest
> web browser technologies. It is an interesting concept though.I
> believe an attempt was made to Resurrect Amiga with a working machine
> and desktop sometime ago.
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 8:10 AM Mark Olesen wrote:
>
> That sounds fantastic. It is unfortunate development was abandoned.
> Having multiple choices seems like a good idea.
TinyCore Linux also has a "Core" (11 MB) "base system which provides
only a command line interface".
The biggest
Hi again,
(Sorry in advance for the ramble.)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:06 PM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:21 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> > > Regina REXX was not very small, while some others are s
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 2:24 PM Mark Olesen wrote:
>
> Great idea. I like minimalism. However, I don't think networking
> drivers are up to snuff to completely automate the process.
This has already (unofficially) been done.
*
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> (AFAIK)
> Perl 6 was officially renamed Rakudo.
Apparently the language proper is "Raku" ("camel" in Japanese, like
the old mascot) while the only current major/stable implementation is
Rakudo (Artistic Li
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 4:11 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Well, after having a problem with IA-16 gcc (which seems to requires DJGPP
> gcc installed and working), I have search for an other free C compiler for
> FreeDOS.
I can send you a .BAT to setup IA16-GCC in FreeDOS,
Hi again,
Just to clarify
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > Another thought: how outdated is this DOS version of perl?
>
> Our build of 5.8.8 (from DJGPP) is from 2008.
Not quite, but
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 7:56 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Aren’t there nearly 100 DGJPP packages? Any others needed or should be added?
>
> Like I said, I don’t use DGJPP and am not very familiar with it. Someone who
> actually uses it should work on making the updated packages.
Getting all
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Another thought: how outdated is this DOS version of perl? I know it's Perl
> 5.8.8 and the current version is 5.32.x.
> But how "far apart" are those two versions? (It's been years since I
> intentionally wrote a perl script, so I don't
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:21 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Regina REXX was not very small, while some others are small?
>
> Regina at least has some justification. Some later versions of PC DOS
> came with REXX.
Yeah, it replaced QBASIC there.
Hi,
Sorry, I'm late to this thread, but ... I don't feel like reading ten
pages before quickly responding to this misunderstanding.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 2:39 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Over time, FreeDOS has grown to include lots of interesting programs. The
> FreeDOS 1.2 and 1.3RCx
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:27 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> GNU's bc ... I ported it to DOS using Borland C++ 3.1
I'll be honest, although I've heard of it, I'm not directly familiar
with the syntax of "bc", but thanks for the port! I'll look closer
eventually.
(The makefile is a bit confusing
Hi,
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:04 PM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> > Please shed some light on the well known reasons.
> see Bart's 29 dez 2019 mail in freedos-devel
Sorry, I'm preoccupied, so I haven't been doing as much contributing
to FreeDOS as I'd like. So I haven't tested the latest pre-release
from
MetaDOS, if that'll help you (7-Zip's "7z" can extract from .img),
since I disabled it there:
*
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/metados-0.7.zip
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/p7z1602b.7z?attredirects=0=1
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